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The Truth About Air & Water(Truth in Lies #2) By: Katherine Owen
Publication date: August 25, 2014
Genre: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Blurb:
The Truth In Lies Series. READ This Much Is True, book 1 first, although it’s been written as a standalone. Readers say, don’t do that.
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway ~ A Farewell To Arms
They share an epic love but one moment changes everything. A life together that seemed certain is shattered. One learns you never love the same way twice; the other learns what it means to come home. You only think you know how this love story goes, but do you really know how an epic love can end?
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
She is living color, and I’ve been in a black-and-white world for far too long without her.
Powerful stuff. It surrounds me. I’ve felt it since I first arrived. The forcefield of her. The magnetism of her. The power she wields over me. I’m alive again because of her, like a dying plant that finally gets some water. I’ve got it bad for this girl.
Reality dawns.
The light comes through the darkness and shines on me.
She’s my water.
-Lincoln Presley
The truth is I breathe with him. He is my air. Raison d’etre.
-Tally Landon
Author’s note: This novel is part of the Truth In Lies series. It can be read as standalone, however, fans of my fiction already are highly recommending that those new to my work, READ This Much Is True book 1 FIRST.
As Lincoln Presley would say, “do as you must, Princess.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway ~ A Farewell To Arms
They share an epic love but one moment changes everything. A life together that seemed certain is shattered. One learns you never love the same way twice; the other learns what it means to come home. You only think you know how this love story goes, but do you really know how an epic love can end?
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
She is living color, and I’ve been in a black-and-white world for far too long without her.
Powerful stuff. It surrounds me. I’ve felt it since I first arrived. The forcefield of her. The magnetism of her. The power she wields over me. I’m alive again because of her, like a dying plant that finally gets some water. I’ve got it bad for this girl.
Reality dawns.
The light comes through the darkness and shines on me.
She’s my water.
-Lincoln Presley
The truth is I breathe with him. He is my air. Raison d’etre.
-Tally Landon
Author’s note: This novel is part of the Truth In Lies series. It can be read as standalone, however, fans of my fiction already are highly recommending that those new to my work, READ This Much Is True book 1 FIRST.
As Lincoln Presley would say, “do as you must, Princess.”
Author Interview
What is your favorite genre? Who are your favorite authors?
KO: I read a variety of genres. I am a huge fan of Gillian Flynn, Tarryn Fisher, Katja Millay, Tess
Callahan, and Jennifer Egan. The writing techniques of all of these writers influences what I do
with my own work and the things I picked up in the classes at The Writers Studio adds to my repertoire.
Tell us about The Truth About Air &Water. What inspired this story?
KO: The idea of Tally came to me about three years ago during a writing assignment for one
of The Writers Studio classes I took. In that assignment, she was an artist—promiscuous, bent
on self-destruction—when she comes across a guy, who has everything going for him. Linc
didn’t change too much from the initial beginnings, but obviously Tally did. I wanted to write
about two characters that had been dealt their fair share of tragedy and show how it shaped
their psyches and influenced what they did and ultimately what they wanted out of life. I don’t
think of these two as being co-dependent. I see them more as being whole and complete with
the other. Enhanced. In reality, these two would be perfectly fine conducting entirely separate
lives on their own—away from each other—because they put their all into their chosen careers
of perfection. Tally with ballet. Linc with baseball. However, I hope what readers come away
with is realizing that ballet and baseball are just a means to an end, part of the fulfillment, but
the true dream they long for is being loved for who they are, despite being famous for ballet and
baseball.
What kind of books do you write? What is your style?
I’m a writer of dark, angsty love stuff. (Angsty is not a word; c’est la vie.) If you’re going to
read my work, you need to prepare properly with tissues, perhaps some wine nearby, Advil or
something stronger and don’t start my work late at night because there is a point where you will
not be able to stop reading.
Who should read your books? What kind of reader?
KO: Readers who enjoy reading more of a dark romance with complex characters and appreciate
twisty plot lines will enjoy my novels. I don’t write predictable storylines, and I don’t write to
recipe. If you’re looking for light and fluffy, move along, my stuff is neither of those things. If
you’re looking for sex scenes through the latter half of the book, you’ll be disappointed because
although I like sex, I don’t think it should take up half the storyline. If you have an appreciation
for a little literary flair and don’t mind the propensity for the f-word every so often or stories
that will make you cry, read my work.
What are your future book plans? What's in the works?
KO: There is going to be more of Linc and Tally in a third book. Yes, I have committed to fans
for a third book (yet to be named) in the Truth In Lies Series. Caution: I’m not a fast writer (or,
is that fast thinker?) so it will be a little while. Look for the third book some time in 2015.
I don’t do novellas. I don’t do serials. I have a WIP called Saving Valentines that I really need to
get back to and two unnamed WIPs from my writing classes with The Writers Studios that both
hold exciting promise. Writing. I am always writing or thinking about writing.
About the Author: A penchant for angst, serious drama, and the unintentional complications of love began early on when she won a poetry contest at the age of fourteen and appears to be without end. Owen has an avid love of coffee, books, and writing, but not necessarily in that order. She lives in an old house near Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.
Thanks for interview about writing and the Truth In Lies series! Best, Katherine Owen
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